2: The Horsemen and the Missing Man

Armed with WhatsApp voice notes and century-old military records, Sami Shah tracks his missing ancestor across the battlefields of World War I in search of the truth about his death. Sami uncovers a few details to start his search for Rifatullah Shah from that sacred diaspora communication – the WhatsApp voice note. Can they find the regiment Rifatullah joined? Did Rifatullah die at the Salonika front, in what is now Greece? Can Sami and his producer Tom get past hazy geography skills and spelling errors in the imperial war archives and locate one man in a million? #sbsaudiopodcast